inflectional

Definitions of inflectional
  1. adjective
    characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions
    “inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc.”
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    derivational
    characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base
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